This standard is maintained by XBRL International, an international non-profit consortium of approximately 450 major companies, organizations, and government agencies around the world. It is an open standard, provided free of license fees, and is already being used in numerous countries.
Combined with âstep-upâ authentication, context-based authentication optimizes a layered approach to access security by assessing user login attributes and matching them against pre-defined security policies. When security policies are met, users are granted immediate access.
This provides the benefits of user authentication in the pre-boot environment without requiring the user to remember an additional password (assuming that the user is using the TPM embedded security chip for other applications).